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Pyromelana hordacea hordacea. 



Loxia hordacea Linn., Syst. Nat., 1758, p. 173. — Type locality : 

 « In Indiis » errore! Suhstitutc : West Africa : ■S'enegal. 



Professer Lônnberg has pointed ont in a clear article pnblished 

 in the Arkiv for Zoologi, Band 12, n" 3, 19 19 that Loxia hor dacea 

 Linn. mnst in future be the name emploved for the Fire-crowned 

 Bishop-bird hitherto called Pyromelana ( Eiiplectes) flainmiceps 

 SwAiNS (Bds. W. Afr., 1837, p. 186 : Sénégal). The change is 

 apparentlv unavoidable and the sooner it is accepted by working 

 ornithologists the better. 



P. 11. hordacea occurs in many parts of Africa. Kemp obtained a 

 single spécimen in Southern Nigeria at Agoulerie in August and 

 eggs at Abutschi in September, and there are spécimens in the 

 Muséum from Abutschi (W. A. Forbes); also eue bird abtained 

 during the Niger expédition bv Mrs Heywood, the localitv not 

 being stated. 



Range. — It is represented in the British Muséum from the 

 following counti^es : 



West Africa : Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Southern 

 Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, Congo mouth, St. Thomas island, 

 Angola. 



Central Africa : French EquaLorial Africa, Belgian Congo. 



East Africa : Kenva Colonv, Tanganvika Territorv, Zanzibar, 

 Nyasaland, Rhodesia. 



In North East Africa it is represented by a slightly smaller form 

 distinguished bv having the under tail-coverts white, often with 

 black middles (cf. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1913, pp. 564-565). 



This race is : 



Pyromelana hordacea craspedopterus. 



Ploceus craspedopterus Bonap., Consp. Av., I, 1S50, p. 446, 

 Abyssinia. 



Range. — Abvssinia, Sudan (Mongalla). 



